History ConditionedToAcceptHorror / FanWorks

** The members of Team 14 have been forced to fight in [[ForWantOfANail the ongoing Third Shinobi War]] as ChildSoldiers, having been separated from their 'less expendable' peers and put through express training that rushed them out onto the battlefield at the tender ages of five and six. ZigZagged in that while their experiences have conditioned them to some extent, they don't ''completely'' lose sight of how unfair their circumstances are. Sakura particularly proves to be a thorn in Danzo's side with her [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] observations about how his warmongering isn't bringing peace to ''anyone''.

** Harry's one of the more prominent examples, with all his traumatic experiences combining to leave him with a degree of DissonantSerenity that startles even his 5000 plus year old grandfather, a veteran of cosmic warfare. All things told, it takes a lot to faze him. However, this is balanced by a metric ''fuckton'' of [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].

* ''Fanfic/TheSilverRaven'': [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Luz's]] time on the Boiling Isles and surviving the nightmares that inhabit it has led to her not having much reaction to whatever new horror comes in. For instance, when a Rogue openly desires to decapitate her and use her head like a bowling ball, the most it gets out of her is a monotone stare. While traversing the inside of the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Leviathan]], she muses she'd be a lot more disgusted if it ''wasn't'' her first time being eaten by a demon.

-->Buffy took a deep breath as the Maid of Might flew them in for a swift landing. They touched ground by the doughnuted demons. The sight didn’t agree with Kara. She noticed that Buffy took it in a more businesslike manner.\\

A lot of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' stories have the Scoobies, or even just normal Sunnydale residents, prove to be far more accepting of stressful situations than normal people.

[[AC:''Manga/{{Naruto}}'']]

* This is pretty much every clones' attitude toward in ''[[http://www.archiveofourown.org/works/29517321/chapters/72522729 Commander Fox Is Completely Fine]]'', but Fox especially. One scene has him explain to Senator Chuchi that the Clone Troopers are essentially ChildSoldier{{s}}, and when she's horrified by this, he "reassures" her by explaining that they're pumped full of growth hormones by the Kaminoans so they [[RapidAging rapidly age into adulthood.]] He's then utterly bewildered when this horrifies her ''more''.

He takes another swallow of water from his bottle, following my gaze. Then he makes a sad face. "Souls," he answers quietly. "Human souls. They… uh, came spraying out of Rei's neck during Instrumentality."\\
I nod silently. It seems like this should shock or horrify me, but now that just kind of seems… par for the course.

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': Misaka-11111 casually references the Sisters' many brutal death against Accelerator about once a chapter. She also mentions that [[PlaguedByNightmares they have constant nightmares on the topic]], but doesn't seem to care besides musing that it might be nice to dream about something else. Not to mention that as a product of some of the worst of the city's infamous Dark Side, there is very little that can phase her. During a hostage situation, she notes that she's relatively safe since hostages aren't killed immediately--unlike the Level 6 Shift experiment, where most of the Sisters died within minutes of each experiment's start.

* Inko in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13037538/1/The-Worm-That-Dorks The Worm That Dorks]]'' is introduced being sacrificed by cultists and thinking to herself that she's glad they're professional cultists this time, who don't use dirty sacrificial daggers or stutter while speaking BlackSpeech. After they successfully summon a baby EldritchAbomination, Inko adopts it as her son and names it Izuku. When Principal Nezu visits, he notices dozens of photos of Pro Heroes posing with Inko, said photos implied to be taken shortly after she was rescued again. While all the heroes look uncomfortable to some degree while Inko smiles cheerfully.

* ''[[Fanfic/CatchYourBreath Dig Two Graves]]'':

* ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak'': As far as the students at Francoise Dupont are concerned, AdultsAreUseless; the school staff have done absolutely ''nothing'' to try and lower the chances of Hawkmoth targeting their charges, so akuma attacks have become a regular occurence.

* ''Fanfic/MessagesForDad'': Rosie, the three-year-old daughter of Fulgrim and Rhea, has absolutely no reaction to her parents having an absolutely ''vicious'' screaming match at a family dinner, citing the event as "normal," which horrifies Fuglrim's father and brothers. Of course, in the [[BadFuture 40k timeline]] [[spoiler: she's followed her father into becoming a Slaaneshi Daemon, so at that point she's less "conditioned to accept" and more "has a demented fetish for."

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': There are hints that the human race overall are becoming this following the Titans' re-emergence and other humbling events that were depicted in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''. Titans causing costly property damage when forced to enter human-populated areas to deal with threats on their power level, and the idea that such things as [[UndeadAbomination the Many]] can even come into being, are things which notably don't shock people as much as they once would've. Ren Serizawa at one point inwardly muses that perhaps one day people will view Titan incursions the same way people view traffic accidents.

* ''/Fanfic/ALoudAmongDemons'' deconstructs this; Lincoln becomes fearful that his growing desensitization to the depravity and madness that is Hell itself is a sign that he's losing touch with his humanity.

** The goddesses themselves also invoke this trope by [[spoiler:putting Link's mind through the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' adventure 98,000 times during his [[GroundhogDayLoop four]] seven-year sleeps. It's borderline AndIMustScream, in a way]].

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21565177/chapters/51412921 Personal Space]]'': During work event parties, Adrien has been told by his father that he has to keep the other guests "entertain." This usually means letting other women touch and grab him even when he is uncomfortable, and as he never knew he could say no he categorized it as flirting. He never realizes that it was sexual assault until Ladybug tells him that's what those women were doing to him, but by then one of the women had taken advantage to [[RapeAsDrama rape him]].
** It's also revealed that Adrien has been emulating their behavior when flirting to Ladybug as Chat Noir. So when Ladybug explains just why what happened to him was wrong, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he realizes in horror that his actions were absolutely inappropriate]]. Ladybug reluctantly admits that he does get uncomfortably romantic even when she says no. But since he is feeling remorse for what he did and promises to work on his action, [[EasilyForgiven she's willing to forgive him and help him with his issues]].

** Harry's one of the more prominent examples, with all his traumatic experiences combining to leave him with a degree of DissonantSerenity that startles even his 5000 plus year old grandfather, a veteran of cosmic warfare. All things told, it takes a lot to faze him.
** More tragically, [[spoiler:Maddie]] was conditioned all her life to accept treatment as inhuman LivingWeapon and experiment, because that's what she was raised to believe she was made for. Gambit spends a long time [[ClonesArePeopleToo coaxing her to accept the idea that she is allowed to be a person]], though it takes a while to sink in. [[spoiler: In fact, for added bitter irony, not only is she really Jean Grey's stolen-at-birth twin sister, but ''he's'' actually an artificially aged clone of Scott Summers who escaped Sinister's lab when he was physically seven]]. It is not pretty when she finds out the truth, and her capacity to be utterly indifferent in the face of grand-scale horror, but utterly daunted and tearfully baffled at the mere concept of people being ''kind'' to her, is very much PlayedForDrama.

-->'''All Might:''' A thousand!? And this has been happening since your quirk manifested, at four?
-->'''Izuku:''' You get used to it. You can get used to just about anything, given enough time.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27552703/chapters/68640945#workskin Hysterical]]'': Izuku's Quirk gives him ResurrectiveImmortality and causes him to FeelNoPain. Inko spent countless nights crying herself to sleep over killing Izuku to heal his injuries but eventually reached the point of just being mildly annoyed by the glitter his Quirk produces.